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Trivia Contest Jul 07, 2008 1 min read

Newsdemon.com Usenet Trivia Contest July 7th, 2008

Here is today’s usenet trivia question: What is the "BIG 8" and what are they? The FIRST person to reply to the following email address with the correct answer PLUS their Name, City, State, and Country will be declared...

General Jul 07, 2008 1 min read

Hearing Voices Inside Your Head?

The U.S. military has been funding the deployment of a non-lethal microwave weapon that creates sound inside your head. The project, known as MEDUSA (Mob Excess Deterrent Using Silent Audio) creates "microwave auditory...

Trivia Contest Jul 03, 2008 1 min read

Newsdemon.com Usenet Trivia Contest July 3rd, 2008

Here is today’s usenet trivia question: What operating system was Usenet meant to assist in collaborating information? The FIRST person to reply to the following email address with the correct answer PLUS their Name,...

General Jul 03, 2008 1 min read

The Universe May Be More Squishy Than Believed

According to data from the unmanned Voyager spacecraft that was launched in 1977 that is now studying the edges of the hemisphere, it reveals that the solar system may not be a nice round shape once imagined. Instead,...

General Jul 01, 2008 1 min read

'SOS' Still Healthy and Active at 100

"SOS", the distress signal that is responsible for saving thousands of lives celebrates it's 100th birthday today. SOS is most commonly used as the international morse code as a distress sigal which contains three dots...

General Jun 30, 2008 1 min read

Newsdemon.com Usenet Trivia Contest June 30th, 2008

Here is today’s usenet trivia question: The father of the web, Tim Berners, announced the birth of the World Wide Web project to the Usenet community in what year? The FIRST person to reply to the following email...

General Jun 30, 2008 1 min read

Asparagus Agriculture Possible On Mars

According to NASA scientists, preliminary analysis of the red planet by the Phonex Mars Lander mission, the soil is much more alkaline than expected. "We basically have found what appears to be the requirements, the...

General Jun 27, 2008 1 min read

Google Launches New Media Server

Google just announced its odd Google Media Server, a Windows app that finds photos, music, and video and makes it available to DLNA devices like the PlayStation 3, XBox 360, and most Media Center PCs. Google Media...

General Jun 26, 2008 1 min read

Newsdemon.com Usenet Trivia Contest June 26th, 2008

Here is today’s usenet trivia question: What image format was developed due to the extensive Usenet collaboration? The FIRST person to reply to the following email address with the correct answer PLUS their Name, City,...

General Jun 26, 2008 1 min read

A Great Goodbye to Gates

Who would have thought that back in the 1970s a bunch of geeks from New Mexico would be the tech behemoth that it has become today. Microsoft, as however you think of them, set the standard for operating systems in PCs...

General Jun 23, 2008 1 min read

Comedian George Carlin Passes Away At Age 71

7 Censored words that have been and continue to be taboo on broadcast television to this day, that normally wouldn't even be discussed, was exactly what Carlin focused on for the first time in 1972. Since then, "Seven...

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